Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Just realized that yesterday's entry mood contains a typo, and this is because that's the name of one of the publishers of scientific textbooks.

And for the sake of posterity I won't be editing that, although that's one of the good things about posting on the internet.

@@ Today I gave the pre-final standings of one of my classes, the computer architecture one.

This is the one that only had two exams they were able to have in the term, due to the student affair commitments getting in the way.

Everyone got relatively high in the first exam, but here in the second one there were those in the sixties range while the others were at the hundred twenty point mark, which I warned them was the maximum they could get even if they answered all of the questions in part two, of which they were only asked to answer two.

So I said that those who got one hundred or more (there was one who got a hundred and two) would be exempted from the finals, which is on our original Saturday schedule for some reason.

Actually I think it's because the registrar's office, who schedules the finals, didn't change our class slots to Wednesday as we had requested near the start of the term, and assumed that all Saturday classes are for part-time teachers and therefore shouldn't be changed to affect their availability.

There was one student who got 97, and he was begging to be exempted.

I told him I never round up for finals, but I told him if they could submit their exercise for the day before 11am (which was actually the second option of the two exercises I gave them last time, just given more explanation this time than just a text message) which was how to input a 32-bit number in decimal (not in binary, which is the easiest) using the operations and input methods available for 16-bit numbers.

And he was able to push through, or at least his group mates were.

Session 2479 even joked with them about asking the percentage of his contribution to the program. Class dismissed.